Even Gaffigan's wife Jeannie used social media to showcase her family watching the homosexual parade go by. "Mom? Is everyone in New York City gay?" her kids asked her.

"They were at the sprinkler park in their bathing suits and the parade just marched by and handed out rainbow flags," she posted on Instagram.

Gaffigan, a graduate of Jesuit-run Georgetown University, is often trotted out by the Catholic world as a comedian who brings Catholicism to the masses through his gift of humor. Best known for his family-friendly routines on bacon, McDonalds fries, and bowling, Gaffigan will also get laughs for his jokes about being a Catholic parent with five kids. Gaffigan, who is 51, has often been praised by Catholics for his frank adherence to Catholic teaching against contraception.

The comedian has received accolades from Catholic News Agency, Aleteia, and National Catholic Register. When Pope Francis visited the U.S. in 2015, Gaffigan was honored as being the lone comedian in a warmup act prior to the Popes appearance at the Festival of Families.

But there is a side to Gaffigans Catholicism that does not square with Catholic teaching. And thats his take on sexuality.

The Catholic Church teaches that God created humans as male and female and gave them to each other in marriage so they could increase and multiply. Sexual attraction and sexual acts between a male and female are specifically created by God for the purpose of procreation. The Catholic Church teaches that homosexual acts are acts of grave depravity and intrinsically disordered since they are contrary to the natural law in that they close the sexual act to the gift of life.

They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved, states the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Since God did not make a mistake in creating humans as male and female for one another, the Church also teaches that same-sex attraction is objectively disordered since God created members of the opposite sex to be attracted to one another for the sake of procreation.

Based on the content of his shows, Gaffigan takes much more than a who am I to judge approach to homosexuality.

In a 2012 episode of the TV show Portlandia, Gaffigan plays Donald who kisses his gay business partner Stu of Stues Stews on the lips after the pair successfully sells their first bowl of hot food from a food cart. The front of the food cart consists of a giant image of two naked men in a hot tub filled with stew. In the image, Gaffigan is wearing a hat with the word Oregon in rainbow letters.

Then in 2015, Gaffigan and his wife Jeannie produced The Jim Gaffigan Show which highlights an active gay character, played by Michael Ian Black, whose attraction to and sexual involvement with other men is portrayed as normal and healthy. In the show, the gay character is constantly hitting on other men, often asking them out to lunch as he jokes about condoms and oral sex.

I knew exactly what he [Black] would bring [into the show], and he did every time, said Jim Gaffigan in a behind-the-scenes explanation on YouTube about the humor behind the gay character.